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A right circular cone is intersected by a plane that passes through the cone's

vertex and is perpendicular to its base, as in the picture below. What is
produced from this intersection?
OA. A pair of parallel lines
B. A single line
OC. A point
OD. A pair of intersecting lines

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Answer:

D. A pair of intersecting lines

Explanation:

A conic section is a fancy name for a curve that you get when you slice a double cone with a plane. Imagine you have two ice cream cones stuck together at the tips, and you cut them with a knife. Depending on how you cut them, you can get different shapes. These shapes are called conic sections, and they include circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas. If you cut them right at the tip, you get a point. If you cut them slightly above the tip, you get a line. If you cut them at an angle, you get two lines that cross each other. That's what happened in your question. The plane cut the cone at an angle, so the curve is two intersecting lines. That means the correct answer is D. A pair of intersecting lines.

I hope this helps you ace your math question.

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